I feel bad for laughing, but...

Well, sometimes I feel bad for feeling good. This is one of those times. Since it came out I have been saying there were major flaws in the OLPC. There's no contingency for what happens when they need fixed overseas, or where they end up when the hardware fails. Initially it was a $100 laptop, now it's a $200 laptop. To make things better most of their team bailed on Negraponte, and now this. The keyboard was apparently never stress tested and it's peeling apart. It's a rubber keyboard, so the more it's used the quicker it starts crumbling. And they have no way of replacing them. It makes me laugh, but it's a bad thing for all those kids who need to use it and suddenly don't remember where to press. Brilliant.

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